Netflix Goes Dark Again on June 21

Not surprisingly, the first teaser for Dark’s second season is plenty cryptic, even if you were a fan of season one.

When it was first announced, Dark — Netflix’s first German original series — was compared to Stranger Things. Which was something of a misnomer. While it did have some ​‘80s nostalgia, Dark was quite a bit, well, darker, thanks to an ominous storyline involving kidnappings, time travel, corporate cover-ups, police corruption, family dysfunction, and perhaps even the devil himself.

It was also a good deal more convoluted, thanks to a large cast of characters — many of whom appear at different ages due to the series jumping back and forth between 2019, 1986, and 1953 — and numerous, intricately woven storylines set in the fictional town of Winden. (If you’d like an overview of Dark​’s first season, read my review.)

Dark​’s first season ended with characters even more far-flung in time, and a glimpse of a distant post-apocalyptic future. Not surprisingly, the first teaser for Dark​’s second season is plenty cryptic, even if you were a fan of season one. Dark​’s second season begins streaming on Netflix on June 21, and suffice to say, things are going to get even darker (sorry) for the residents of Winden.